April 3 - April 8 | Footprints of Memory. In the Search for Mexico's Disappeared | Exhibition in Aberystwyth

These are the shoes of relatives searching for their missing loved ones in Mexico, engraved with words about their search. In the opening we will have the participation of artist Alfredo González Casanova and María de Jesús Tlatempa Bello, mother of José Eduardo Bartolo Tlatempa, one of the 43 students disappeared in Ayotzinapa since September 2014. Event organised byHuellas de la Memoriaand Aberystwyth University. Programme:

Join London Mexico Solidarity for a conversation with Paula Mónaco and Miguel Tovar on the brave work that journalists are doing in the context of the so called "War on Drugs" in Mexico. Chaired by Amanda Hopkins and organised with English Pen and Alborada London. Event Organised by LMS in collaboration withAlborada and English PEN.

- March 24th | Bordered and Resistance | 18:00 - 20:30 - Textiles and Politics Collective and London Mexico Solidarity: allowing the needle and thread to become a political weapon.

- March 24th | Minga for the migrant woman: The Daughter of the Lagoon | 18:00

All workshops have limited seats. Please RSVP at movjaguar@gmail.com indicating the name of the workshop you wish to participate in. Free entrance (Donations are welcome). This event will be held in Spanish but please let us know if you need any translation for any talk or workshop. Collaborating Organisations: War on Want and Unite. Further Info: Mujeres Generando CambioUnite Union | 128 Theobalds Rd, Holborn WC 1X 8TN

February 24 |Viva México! - Film Screening| 18:30 - 21:30

Viva México! Stories of Struggle and Resistance. Dir. Nicolás Défossé, 120. min (2010) Viva México! brings together the stories of different communities resisting state violence across Mexico, which finally gathered around the Other Campaign (organised by the EZLN and the Zapatista Communities in 2005) to grow autonomy and resistance. Headway East London | Timber Wharf, 238-240 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8AX

January 19th Amnesty International and London Mexico Solidarity:Mexico's Human Rights Crisis and the Zapatista Struggle.Organised by the Kingston - AI group. 8:00PM, New Malden Methodist Church, 49 High Street, New Malden KT3 4BY

2016

November 2nd Gatecrishing the Mexican Embassy's Day of the Dead. Remembering those who the Mexican Government wants to forget

* Ayot2inapa 24th September / Time to be confirmed'Mexico's Human Rights Crisis: Enforced Disppearances', a brief talk by FUNDENL, at the British Museum's Great Court, Great Russell St. London, WC1B 3DG

* Ayot2inapa23rd September / 18:00 Watching them Die: The Mexican Army and the 43 Disappeared. Documentary Screening and Discussion by War Resisters International and London Mexico Solidarity. Friends Meeting House, Suite B, 173-177 Euston Rd. £3 suggested donation.

* Ayot2inapa21st September / 18:00Panel Discussion. Disappearances in Mexico: 2 Years After Ayotzinapa. UCL Institute of the Americas. Room 103. FurtherInfo and Registration

London Mexico Solidarityis currently preparing a short video clip that features an interview with one student who survived the Ayotzinapa attack, while also situating their struggle within the broader context of Mexico’s human rights crisis and the problems that frontline communities are facing, such as the privatisation of their natural resources and attacks against their traditions, language, culture and ways of life.

We want to invite you to be part of this action of solidarity with Mexican people resisting state oppression and cultivating autonomy and dignity. Whether you are part of a collective, a campaign, or you are an individual willing to support the 43 Ayotzinapa students, the Zapatistas or frontline communities in Mexico, we are asking willing participants to:

Share a photo of you or your group with a message of solidarity. Please include your name or the name of your organisation, and your city of residence.

Your message can be a message of support or a message linking your struggle and those struggles going on in Mexico, and will be featured in the video that will help us raise awareness and spread stories of resistance and dignity growing in Mexico.

London Mexico Solidarity has been active in London for more than 15 years, raising awareness of Zapatista communities facing dispossession and repression, their creative resistance and dignity in building autonomy.

Over several years we have worked to highlight Mexico’s human rights crisis triggered by the intensification of dispossession and repression associated with the ‘war on drugs’, launched by the Mexican government in 2006. It has resulted in the militarisation of the country and the collusion between different agents of the state and organised crime. It is estimated that more than 120,000 people have been killed in this escalating violence, while more than 40,000 people have been displaced from their communities and 27,000 have been forcibly disappeared.

Indigenous communities, women, migrants, farmers, human rights defenders, journalists and activists have become common targets of the narco-state. Victims, their relatives and organisations accompanying them have been constantly attacked and re-victimised by the Mexican government and mainstream media and denied access to justice.

In this context the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher-training school on 26th September 2014 is now a prime example of Mexico’s state violence. London Mexico Solidarity, alongside other Mexican and Latin American solidarity groups, has spread the names and faces of the disappeared students around London and other parts of the UK. We have shared their stories as victims of brutal violence, but we have also stressed their capacity to resist and fight back. This time we want to share with them a message of solidarity and include the messages of many groups and individuals as possible.